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Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas. While much attention is afforded the critical roles of communication by police agencies, there has been little recourse to communication science and its theories. Likewise, the latter has not, until recently, concerned itself with analyzing police-citizen interactions. This volume examines the character

Advances in and prospects for intergroup communication : prologue / Howard Giles & Anne Maass -- Intergroup communication's defining features and constraints -- Shared identity and the intergroup dynamics of communication / Katharine Greenaway, Kim Peters, S. Alexander Haslam & William Bingley -- De-dichotomizing intergroup and interpersonal dynamics : perspectives on communication, identity and relationships / Katlyn Gangi & Jordan Soliz -- Language attitudes as intergroup terrain / Marko Dragojevic -- News media and intergroup contexts / Craig O. Stewart -- Political correctness / Becky Robinson & Scott A. Reid -- Tools of intergroup communication -- Intergroup metaphors / Nick Haslam, Elise Holland & Michelle Stratemeyer -- Binomial word order and social status / Peter Hegarty, Sandra Mollin & Rob Foels -- Nonverbal behavior and intergroup communication / Luigi Castelli & Giovanni Galfano -- Social media and intergroup communication : collapsing and expanding group contexts / Caleb T. Carr, Eric J. Varney & J. Ryan Blesse -- Social groups and their context -- Gender and linguistic sexism / Ute Gabriel & Pascal Gygax -- Communication and the "invisible" : disclosing and inferring sexual orientation through visual and vocal cues / Fabio Fasoli, Anne Maass & Simone Sulpizio -- An intergroup approach to political communication / Charlotte Nau -- Intergroup communication in organizations -- Organizational socialization and intergroup dynamics / DaJung Woo & Karen Myers -- Intergroup communication and leadership in healthcare / Lori Leach, Bernadette Watson, David G. Hewett, Gavin Schwarz & Cindy Gallois -- Intergroup communication perspectives on military families and the military-civilian divide / Steve R. Wilson & Skye M. Chernichky -- Future directions -- Towards a social neuroscience of intergroup communication / Richard Clément, Catherine Bielajew & Sinthujaa Sampasivam -- Conceptualizing the diversity of intergroup settings : the web model / Martin Ehala, Howard Giles & Jake Harwood -- Social networks and intergroup communication / Cynthia Stohl, Howard Giles & Anne Maass -- Contributors -- Index

As people age, experiences of depression, loneliness and loss of physical capabilities can emerge. As with previous work on the benefits of music as an intervention for social belonging and valued social identity, dance may increase similar feelings. Although theoretical chapters have been written on dance as it relates to social identity, belonging, and health, little empirical work has been conducted on the benefits of ballet as a recreational activity for older adults. The study reported here is framed by the "communication ecology model of successful aging," and modestly embellishes this framework based on this study's findings. Using interviews from 24 American female recreational ballet dancers ranging in age from 23-87 in a small West Coast town, this study investigates, for the first time, how ballet is incorporated into their self-concept and physical, mental, and social experiences of aging. Findings indicate that participating regularly in ballet is a core aspect of most women's self-concept and means of self-expression. All women discussed how ballet has improved their physical and mental wellness, helping them have a more positive experience of age-related changes. Results showed that most women regard ballet as a very social activity, such that it helps them to feel a sense of community or even kin-like relationships with the other people regularly in class. All women interviewed mentioned that ballet is so integrated into who they are that it is something they hope to do for as long as possible.

This article takes an intergroup communication perspective to conceptualizing language-related issues in multilingual multinational corporations (MNCs). Language is one of the most salient identifiers of individuals and groups as well as an integral aspect of self-concept. Managers of multilingual teams and MNCs, where speakers of different first languages must rely on mutual interactions to achieve common goals, are likely to deal with communication challenges among many other managerial concerns. Adopting a corporate common language (CCL) provides MNCs benefits, such as efficiency and coherence, from standardizing employees' use of language. Yet, the fact that a certain language is viewed as "standard" or common—and others as "nonstandard" and uncommon—can potentially create tensions between native and nonnative speakers of it. To increase scholarly attention to this topic, we discuss topics related to language attitudes that can affect communication processes in multilingual MNCs. The implications of, and organizational benefits for, sensitizing managers of MNCs that have adopted a CCL approach to these intergroup dynamics are discussed. We conclude the article with future research agenda for cross-cultural management researchers facing the global environment in which organizational, cultural, and sectoral boundaries are increasingly blurred and multilingualism impacts both internal and external functions of organizations.

A review of Regina Lawrence's The Politics of Force: Media and the Consturction of Police Brutality and Jeffrey Ian Ross' Making News of Police Violence: A Comparative Study of Toronto and New York City